Word: codicils
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...swindled out of the warden as she was leaving her latest penitentiary she is penniless, but she caracoles into town as the Countess of Auburn. She finds one daughter's marriage being blocked by the town banker. She asks him to draw up a codicil to her will, leaving the girl an imaginary fortune. That fixes that. She finds the other daughter in love with a lurking gangster. She tries to fix that too. At the same time she arranges a combination swindle and blackmail scheme against the town banker. When she goes back to the penitentiary to save...
...made her will in 1924 she left the Cathedral $937,500. Then dissension arose at St. John's, culminating in the resignation three years ago of Dean Robbins (TIME, Jan. 14 & Nov. 4, 1929). Last week when Miss Shannon's will was read there was found a codicil added in 1927, before she stopped attending the Cathedral. It read...
...such as to raise the University of Rochester to the position of fifth among rich U. S. educational institutions,* to bring protests from Cornell University which had understood it would share in the fortune.? Just before he wrote "My work is done. Why wait?" Mr. Eastman added a codicil to his will (dated 1925) eliminating from it Cornell, M. I. T. and the Rochester Y. W. C. A. Last week lawyers pointed out that these institutions had been provided for since the will was drawn. The attorneys for Cornell and the Y. W. C. A. withdrew their objections...
...dignified gentleman in front of him suddenly slipped and would have fallen had it not been for the quickness of our hero. The gentleman thanked him, and to prove there was nothing small in his nature, took our hero home and made him his secretary. He also added a codicil to his will giving his whole fortune to our hero. He was a very rich man and he had a beautiful daughter. Our hero didn't need a codicil to clinch that daughter deal. He was bound to rise...
Soon as the will was filed, Son William L. Edison, who lives modestly in Wilmington tinkering electrical inventions, announced he would contest the codicil on the grounds that his brother Charles and the stepmother had brought undue influence to bear. Though he hinted that he would "not be alone" in the suit, he received no public promises of support from the family. Mrs. Oser called the codicil "unfair...